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Introduce a new mempool_alloc_preallocated API that asks the mempool to only use the elements preallocated during the mempool's creation when allocating and to not attempt allocating new ones from the underlying allocator. This API is required to test the KASAN poisoning/unpoisoning functionality in KASAN tests, but it might be also useful on its own. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a14d809dbdfd04cc33bcacc632fee2abd6b83c00.1703024586.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.